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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
CONSOLIDATION IN U.S. MEATPACKING
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| Autores: |
MacDonald, James M.
Ollinger, Michael
Nelson, Kenneth E.
Handy, Charles R.
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| Data: |
2004-10-28
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| Ano: |
2000
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| Palavras-chave: |
Concentration
Consolidation
Meatpacking
Scale economies
Structural change
Industrial Organization
Livestock Production/Industries
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| Resumo: |
Meatpacking consolidated rapidly in the last two decades: slaughter plants became much larger, and concentration increased as smaller firms left the industry. We use establishment-based data from the U.S. Census Bureau to describe consolidation and to identify the roles of scale economies and technological change in driving consolidation. Through the 1970's, larger plants paid higher wages, generating a pecuniary scale diseconomy that largely offset the cost advantages that technological scale economies offered large plants. The larger plants' wage premium disappeared in the 1980's, and technological change created larger and more extensive technological scale economies. As a result, large plants realized growing cost advantages over smaller plants, and production shifted to larger plants.
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| Tipo: |
Report
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
15198
http://purl.umn.edu/34021
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| Editor: |
AgEcon Search
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| Relação: |
United States Department of Agriculture>Economic Research Service>Agricultural Economics Reports
Agriculture Economic Report Number 785
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| Formato: |
42
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